The 20 Best C Programming Books Available in 2020

C language is profoundly convenient and is utilized for
scripting framework applications. C is a universally useful
programming language; it can proficiently take a shot at big
business applications. Producing and designing game applications is quite
easy when working with C. Learning C language is not that difficult
as it is written in basic English language except for the libraries
that are specific to it. For that, a proper set of C programming
books will serve its purpose. Uses of C are unlimited, but some of
the basic uses of C include developing desktop and system
applications. C is a very simple, mid-level, and structured
programming language; it is super fast and has a rich library.
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Best C Programming
Books

To
learn C, one should be ready with a proper set of c programming
books that will guide them throughout their journey. C is
unequivocally an important language, and thereby if you want to get
into the field of programming, you must learn C. Especially for
newbies, starting with C as a language to learn is a brilliant idea
as it is easy going and fun to learn.

1. Beginning C From Novice to
Professional

If you are interested to learn C programming from scratch, then
this book is exemplary for you. It will spoon feed you all the
topics starting from the most rudimentary topics to all the
advanced concepts. This book will teach you how to create your own
C programs, how you can deal with errors, and dissect a simple
program. After that, it will move on to explaining what variables
are and all the decision making processes.

Slowly after that, you will be taught some of the most
interesting, yet a bit critical topics that are loops, arrays, and
pointers. They may seem intimidating at first, but once you get a
hold of it, you will love it! Finally, it will teach you one of the
most important topics, that is functions, which you will need a lot
in the future.

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 Programming in C
• CHAPTER 2 First Steps in Programming
• CHAPTER 3 Making Decisions
• CHAPTER 4 Loops
• CHAPTER 5 Arrays
• CHAPTER 6 Applications with Strings and Text
• CHAPTER 7 Pointers
• CHAPTER 8 Structuring Your Programs
• CHAPTER 9 More on Functions
• CHAPTER 10 Essential Input and Output Operations
• CHAPTER 11 Structuring Data
• CHAPTER 12 Working with Files
• CHAPTER 13 Supporting Facilities

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2. C For Dummies

This is one of those C programming books that is filled with an
exceptional number of examples helping the reader to understand
each topic almost effortlessly. Did you ever find yourself thinking
that “omg how can I not know this fact”? Well, then this is the
ideal book for you as it will hold your hand and teach you all the
basics and advanced topics with much ease.

The book has several parts, thus making it very accomodating to
read. It is written in such an affable manner that it will almost
make you feel like you are reading a storybook and not learning
some super hard computer language.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to C Programming

• Chapter 1: Up from the Primordial C
• Chapter 2: C of Sorrow, C of Woe
• Chapter 3: C Straight
• Chapter 4: C What I/O
• Chapter 5: To C or Not to C
• Chapter 6: C More I/O with gets() and puts()

Part II: Run and Scream from Variables and
Math

• Chapter 7: A + B = C
• Chapter 8: Charting Unknown Cs with Variables
• Chapter 9: How to C Numbers
• Chapter 10: Cook That C Variable Charred, Please

Part III: Giving Your Programs the Ability to Run
Amok

• Chapter 11: C More Math and the Sacred Order of Precedence
• Chapter 12: C the Mighty if Command
• Chapter 13: What If C==C?
• Chapter 14: Iffy C Logic
• Chapter 15: C You Again
• Chapter 16: C the Loop, C the Loop++
• Chapter 17: C You in a While Loop
• Chapter 18: Do C While You Sleep
• Chapter 19: Switch Case, or, From ‘C’ to Shining ‘c’

Part IV: C Level

• Chapter 20: Writing That First Function
• Chapter 21: Contending with Variables in Functions
• Chapter 22: Functions That Actually Funct
• Chapter 23: The Stuff That Comes First
• Chapter 24: The printf() Chapter
• Chapter 25: Math Madness!
• Chapter 26: The Old Random-Number Function

Part V: Part of Tens

• Chapter 27: Ten More Things You Need to Know about the C
  Language
• Chapter 28: Ten Tips for the Budding Programmer
• Chapter 29: Ten Ways to Solve Your Own Programming
  Problems

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3. C IN A NUTSHELL

As its name suggests, the phrase “In a Nutshell” shows the
motivation of this book, which is to fill in as a helpful, solid
ally for C developers in their everyday work. It portrays all the
components of the language and represents their utilization with
various models. This book isn’t a prologue to programming in C.

In spite of the fact that it covers the basics of the language,
it is not sorted out or composed as an instructional exercise. This
book is not for the ultimate newbies; it expects that you have
perused one of the numerous basic books, or that you know about a
related language, for example, Java or C++.

Table of Contents

Part I. Language

• Language Basics
• Types
• Literals
• Type Conversions
• Expressions and Operators
• Statements
• Functions
• Arrays
• Pointers
• Structures, Unions, and Bit-Fields
• Declarations
• Dynamic Memory Management
• Input and Output
• Multithreading
• Preprocessing Directives

Part II. Standard Library

• The Standard Headers
• Functions at a Glance
• Standard Library Functions

Part III. Basic Tools

• Compiling with GCC
• Using make to Build C Programs
• Debugging C Programs with GDB
• Using an IDE with C

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4. C Programming for the Absolute
Beginner

If you are a complete novice and have never programmed at all,
going through the chapters in this book in the order given will
help you to learn C comfortably without almost any effort. This C
programming book is specially designed for beginners who find
programming intimidating; it is written in a manner to make the
procedure sensibly easy and ideally fun.

Every part starts with a short prologue to section based ideas.
Once inside the section, you will take a gander at a progression of
programming ideas and little projects that will show you every one
of the significant purposes of the part. At last, you will be able
to put these ideas together to assemble a total program towards the
finishing of the chapters.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Getting Started with C Programming
• Chapter 2 Primary Data Types
• Chapter 3 Conditions
• Chapter 4 Looping Structures
• Chapter 5 Structured Programming
• Chapter 6 Arrays
• Chapter 7 Pointers
• Chapter 8 Strings
• Chapter 9 Introduction to Data Structures
• Chapter 10 Dynamic Memory Allocation
• Chapter 11 File Input and Output
• Chapter 12 The C Preprocessor

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5. C From Theory to
Practice

This C programming book is principally routed to students who
have just opted for a course to learn C programming. It is also
intended for those individuals who want to seek knowledge of the C
language by themselves and also for experienced C software
engineers who need to test their aptitudes. Teachers teaching C
programming can also be benefitted ass this book has illustrative
programming guides that they can include in their discussions.

So what, precisely, separates this book from the others in the
field? This book tests the aptitudes of both the fledglings and
propelled designers by giving a simple-to-understand aggregation of
the C hypothesis. It is enhanced with tips and guidance and also
contains innumerable programming exercises.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to C
• Data Types, Variables, and Data Output
• Getting Input with scanf()
• Operators
• Program Control
• Loops
• Arrays
• Pointers
• Characters
• Strings
• Functions
• Searching and Sorting Arrays
• Structures and Unions
• Memory Management and Data Structures
• Files
• Preprocessor Directives and Macros
• Review Exercises

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6. C The Complete
Reference

This is one of the best C programming books for those who want
to learn the C language deeply. The whole book is divided into six
parts, taking you from the most basic chapters to the advanced
chapters. It will comprehend each and every chapter to you with
multifarious examples that will help you to reach out to all parts
of each topic.

This book will provide you with deep theoretical as well as
practical knowledge on C. Thus, it is ideal for both absolute
novices as well as intermediate-level programmers who have a
general idea on C and knows how to program but wants to gain some
additional erudition on this language.

Table of Contents

Part I – Foundational C

• An Overview of C
• Expressions
• Statements
• Arrays and Strings
• Pointers
• Functions
• Structures, Unions, Enumerations, and typedef
• Console I/O
• File I/O
• The Preprocessor and Comments

Part II – The C99 Standard

Part III – The C Standard Library

• Linking, Libraries, and Headers
• I/O Functions
• String and Character Functions
• Mathematical Functions
• Time, Date, and Localization Functions
• Dynamic Allocation Functions
• Utility Functions
• Wide-Character Functions
• Library Features Added by C99

Part IV – Algorithms and Applications

• Sorting and Searching
• Queues, Stacks, Linked Lists, and Trees
• Sparse Arrays
• Expression Parsing and Evaluation
• AI-Based Problem Solving

Part V – Software Development Using C

• Building a Windows 2000 Skeleton
• Software Engineering Using C
• Efficiency, Porting, and Debugging

Part VI – A C Interpreter

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7. Objective – C Quick Syntax
Reference

Do you feel tyrannized by the thought of learning a completely
new programming language and, moreover, C language? Well, then this
book is exquisite for you as it will help you to reach your comfort
zone with C super quickly. Objective – C encompasses
object-oriented programming capabilities of C by extending the
language further. Beginning from operators, variables, strings, and
numbers, it will teach you arrays, class methods, inheritance,
error handling, and also web services.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Hello World
• Chapter 2: Build and Run
• Chapter 3: Variables
• Chapter 4: Operators
• Chapter 5: Objects
• Chapter 6: Strings
• Chapter 7: Numbers
• Chapter 8: Arrays
• Chapter 9: Dictionaries
• Chapter 10: For Loops
• Chapter 11: While Loops
• Chapter 12: Do While Loops
• Chapter 13: For-Each Loops
• Chapter 14: If Statements
• Chapter 15: Switch Statements
• Chapter 16: Defining Classes
• Chapter 17: Class Methods
• Chapter 18: Inheritance
• Chapter 19: Categories
• Chapter 20: Blocks
• Chapter 21: Key-Value Coding
• Chapter 22: Key-Value Observation
• Chapter 23: Protocols
• Chapter 24: Delegation
• Chapter 25: Singleton
• Chapter 26: Error Handling
• Chapter 27: Background Processing
• Chapter 28: Object Archiving
• Chapter 29: Web Services

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8. C Notes for
Professionals

This C programming book is the ultimate book for anyone who
wants to learn C as well as for those who know about C programming
but intends to retain all the information for their future needs.
It is divided in such an immaculate manner, that even the most
amateur programmers can understand by reading it. If you want to
learn C programming by reading only one book, then this is the book
that you should opt for as it contains all the necessary
information to make you a professional from a novice. So it is
highly recommended not to skip over this book.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Getting started with C Language
• Chapter 2: Comments
• Chapter 3: Data Types
• Chapter 4: Operators
• Chapter 5: Boolean
• Chapter 6: Strings
• Chapter 7: Literals for numbers, characters, and strings
• Chapter 8: Compound Literals
• Chapter 9: Bit-fields
• Chapter 10: Arrays
• Chapter 11: Linked lists
• Chapter 12: Enumerations
• Chapter 13: Structs
• Chapter 14: Standard Math
• Chapter 15: Iteration Statements/Loops: for, while,
  do-while
• Chapter 16: Selection Statements
• Chapter 17: Initialization
• Chapter 18: Declaration vs. Definition
• Chapter 19: Command-line arguments
• Chapter 20: Files and I/O streams
• Chapter 21: Formatted Input/Output
• Chapter 22: Pointers
• Chapter 23: Sequence points
• Chapter 24: Function Pointers
• Chapter 25: Function Parameters
• Chapter 26: Pass 2D-arrays to functions
• Chapter 27: Error handling
• Chapter 28: Undefined behavior
• Chapter 29: Random Number Generation
• Chapter 30: Preprocessor and Macros
• Chapter 31: Signal handling
• Chapter 32: Variable arguments
• Chapter 33: Assertion
• Chapter 34: Generic selection
• Chapter 35: X-macros
• Chapter 36: Aliasing and effective type
• Chapter 37: Compilation
• Chapter 38: Inline assembly
• Chapter 39: Identifier Scope
• Chapter 40: Implicit and Explicit Conversions
• Chapter 41: Type Qualifiers
• Chapter 42: Typedef
• Chapter 43: Storage Classes
• Chapter 44: Declarations
• Chapter 45: Structure Padding and Packing
• Chapter 46: Memory management
• Chapter 47: Implementation-defined behavior
• Chapter 48: Atomics
• Chapter 49: Jump Statements
• Chapter 50: Create and include header files
• Chapter 51: <ctype.h> — character classification &
  conversion
• Chapter 52: Side Effects
• Chapter 53: Multi-Character Character Sequence
• Chapter 54: Constraints
• Chapter 55: Inlining
• Chapter 56: Unions
• Chapter 57: Threads (native)
• Chapter 58: Multithreading
• Chapter 59: Interprocess Communication (IPC)
• Chapter 60: Testing frameworks
• Chapter 61: Valgrind
• Chapter 62: Common C programming idioms and developer
  practices
• Chapter 63: Common pitfalls

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9. Head First C

Head First C has been designed in such a manner to make you
forget that you are learning something. It rather makes you feel
more comfortable with the language. Everything has been written in
a more personalized, conversational style, so that it seems as if
you are just having a normal discussion about C programming with
someone.

The book is full of stories and exercises. This helps to engage
the reader into using their brain further and keeping it more
active, thereby grasping every bit of information like a magnet.
This book is not completely for beginners, as it expects that you
know quite a bit about the language beforehand.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started with C: Diving in
• Memory and Pointers: What are you pointing at?
• Strings: String theory
• Creating Small Tools: Do one thing and do it well
• Using Multiple Source Files: Break it down, build it up

C Lab 1: Arduino

• Structs, Unions, and Bitfields: Rolling your own
  structures
• Data Structures and Dynamic Memory: Building bridges
• Advanced Functions: Turn your functions up to 11
• Static and Dynamic Libraries: Hot-swappable code

C Lab 2: OpenCV 

• Processes and System Calls: Breaking boundaries
• Interprocess Communication: It’s good to talk
• Sockets and Networking: There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
• Threads: It’s a parallel world

C Lab 3: Blasteroids 

• Leftovers: The top ten things
• C Topics: Revision roundup

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10. The ANSI C Programming
Language

If you are a beginner and your goal is to learn C programming
language from the very beginning, then reading this book will help
you to achieve that goal. It has been written with very elementary,
straightforward words that not only make it effortless to apprehend
but also interesting in the long run. To give you a fleeting idea
of what this book comprises, let me tell you some of the important
topics discussed here.

This book starts off with a short but condensed introduction
just to warm things up a bit for you. In the introduction, a brief
summary is given for each topic. After that, it moves to operators
and control flow. Finally comes the critical topics that are
structures, functions, pointers, and arrays.

Table of Contents

A Tutorial Introduction

• Getting Started
• Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
• The for statement
• Symbolic Constants
• Character Input and Output
• File Copying
• Character Counting
• Line Counting
• Word Counting
• Arrays
• Functions
• Arguments – Call by Value
• Character Arrays
• External Variables and Scope

Types, Operators, and Expressions 

• Variable Names
• Data Types and Sizes
• Constants
• Declarations
• Arithmetic Operators
• Relational and Logical Operators
• Type Conversions
• Increment and Decrement Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Assignment Operators and Expressions
• Conditional Expressions
• Precedence and Order of Evaluation

Control Flow 

• Statements and Blocks
• If-Else
• Else-If
• Switch
• Loops – While and For
• Loops – Do-While
• Break and Continue
• Goto and labels

Functions and Program Structure

• Basics of Functions
• Functions Returning Non-integers
• External Variables
• Scope Rules
• Header Files
• Static Variables
• Register Variables
• Block Structure
• Initialization
• Recursion
• The C Preprocessor
• File Inclusion
• Macro Substitution
• Conditional Inclusion

Pointers and Arrays

• Pointers and Addresses
• Pointers and Function Arguments
• Pointers and Arrays
• Address Arithmetic
• Character Pointers and Functions
• Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers
• Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Initialization of Pointer Arrays
• Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Command-line Arguments
• Pointers to Functions
• Complicated Declarations

Structures 

• Basics of Structures
• Structures and Functions
• Arrays of Structures
• Pointers to Structures
• Self-referential Structures
• Table Lookup
• Typedef
• Unions
• Bit-fields

Input and Output 

• Standard Input and Output
• Formatted Output – printf
• Variable-length Argument Lists
• Formatted Input – Scanf
• File Access
• Error Handling – Stderr and Exit
• Line Input and Output
• Miscellaneous Functions
• String Operations
• Character Class Testing and Conversion
• Ungetc
• Command Execution
• Storage Management
• Mathematical Functions
• Random Number generation

The UNIX System Interface

• File Descriptors
• Low Level I/O – Read and Write
• Open, Create, Close, Unlink
• Random Access – Lseek
• Example – An implementation of Fopen and Getc
• Example – Listing Directories
• Example – A Storage Allocator

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11. Objective C Programmer’s
Reference

Objective-C Programmer’s Reference gives all the instruments
important to construct working arrangements in Objective-C.
Beginning from the essential structure squares of the C language,
this programming book talks about how to make right and effective
applications. It achieves this by utilizing information on
object-situated programming just as organized programming.

This book attempts to pass on just the most significant subjects
with compact models and examples. Additionally, it incorporates a
snappy reference to the most usually utilized classes, so you do
not have to invest a lot of energy taking a gander at these
archives on the web. For engineers who need to utilize their
proficiency adequately, objective-C Programer’s Reference is an
astounding book for them.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Language

• Chapter 1: The C in Objective-C
• Chapter 2: Classes
• Chapter 3: Strings and Container Classes
• Chapter 4: Categories and Protocols
• Chapter 5: Inheritance
• Chapter 6: Blocks
• Chapter 7: Dynamic Binding
• Chapter 8: Memory Management
• Chapter 9: Key-Value Coding
• Chapter 10: The File System

Part 2: Reference

• Chapter 11: The Foundation Framework

Part 3: The Tools

• Chapter 12: The Compiler
• Chapter 13: The Preprocessor
• Chapter 14: Unit Testing
• Chapter 15: Debugging Writing Apps for OS X and iOS
• Chapter 16: Building OS X GUI Applications
• Chapter 17: Building iOS Apps

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12. C Programming Absolute
Beginner’s Guide

This programming book is meant for those who find programming
intimidating and are scared even to learn it. For you guys, this
book is a piece from heaven. The chapters are so spread out, that
you will be able to grasp each and every topic comfortably without
even having to stress about it much. So feel free to download this
book as it was made just after thinking about you guys. Reading
this book will also benefit you from not having to spend money on a
course as it will teach you more like a tutorial than a normal,
boring book.

Table of Contents

Part I: Jumping Right In

• What Is C Programming, and Why Should I Care?
• Writing Your First C Program
• What Does This Do? Clarifying Your Code with Comments
• Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results Up on the
  Screen
• Adding Variables to Your Programs
• Adding Words to Your Programs
• Making Your Programs More Powerful with #include and
  #define
• Interacting with Users

Part II: Putting C to Work for You with Operators and
Expressions

• Crunching the Numbers—Letting C Handle Math for You
• Powering Up Your Variables with Assignments and
  Expressions
• The Fork in the Road—Testing Data to Pick a Path
• Juggling Several Choices with Logical Operators
• A Bigger Bag of Tricks—Some More Operators for Your
  Programs

Part III: Fleshing Out Your Programs

• Code Repeat—Using Loops to Save Time and Effort
• Looking for Another Way to Create Loops
• Breaking in and out of Looped Code
• Making a case for the switch Statement
• Increasing Your Program’s Output (and Input)
• Getting More from Your Strings
• Advanced Math (for the Computer, Not You!)

Part IV: Managing Data with Your C Programs

• Dealing with Arrays
• Searching Arrays
• Alphabetizing and Arranging Your Data
• Solving the Mystery of Pointers
• Arrays and Pointers
• Maximizing Your Computer’s Memory
• Setting Up Your Data with Structures

Part V: Files and Functions

• Saving Sequential Files to Your Computer
• Saving Random Files to Your Computer
• Organizing Your Programs with Functions
• Passing Variables to Your Functions
• Returning Data from Your Functions

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13. Programming in ANSI
C

This book is awesome for students who are studying for the basic
C programming course as an undergraduate. It is super helpful and
handy as it contains innumerable exercises and examples to explain
a specific topic. So suppose you have a confusion regarding a
certain topic, in that case, you can always move on to the next
examples given for that topic. This will clear out all the doubts
you have. Thus, after finishing this book, you can trust yourself
to be among the many excellent programmers. The book is finely
divided into many chapters so as to make it seem easier and less
intimidating.

Table of Contents

• Abstract Data Types — Information Hiding
• Dynamic Linkage — Generic Functions
• Programming Savvy — Arithmetic Expressions
• Inheritance — Code Reuse and Refinement
• Programming Savvy — Symbol Table
• Class Hierarchy — Maintainability
• The ooc Preprocessor — Enforcing a Coding Standard
• Dynamic Type Checking — Defensive Programming
• Static Construction— Self-Organization
• Delegates — Callback Functions
• Class Methods— Plugging Memory Leaks
• Persistent Objects — Storing and Loading Data Structures
• Exceptions — Disciplined Error Recovery
• Forwarding Messages — A GUI Calculator

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14. Expert C Programming: Deep C
Secrets

This programming book is there to make you a professional in C
programming by providing you advanced tips and tricks. It is
prepared in such a way so as to provide you with all the topics
that you need right at your reach. This book is not for beginners
but rather for intermediate or advanced programmers who want to
become experts in this field. Challenging the cliché idea that
specialized books will, in general, be exhausting, Expert C
Programming offers an exuberant and frequently entertaining look
into all the chapters, so that you do not feel like giving up in
the middle.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. C Through the Mists of Time
• Chapter 2. It’s Not a Bug, and It’s a Language Feature
• Chapter 3. Unscrambling Declarations in C
• Chapter 4. The Shocking Truth: C Arrays and Pointers are NOT
  the Same!
• Chapter 5. Thinking of Linking
• Chapter 6. Poetry in Motion: Runtime Data Structures
• Chapter 7. Thanks for the Memory
• Chapter 8. Why Programmers Can’t Tell Halloween from Christmas
  Day
• Chapter 9. More about Arrays
• Chapter 10. More About Pointers
• Chapter 11. You Know C, So C++ is Easy!

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15. Object-oriented Programming
with ANSI-C

Object-oriented programming is the ultimate panacea for
everything nowadays, though it has been present for more than a few
years now. This C programming book will help you to learn C and how
you can use this language in object-oriented programming. The book
dives deep into the techniques of object-oriented programming, its
benefits, and how they are helping us to solve thousands of
problems so easily.

Table of Contents

• Abstract Data Types — Information Hiding
• Dynamic Linkage — Generic Functions
• Programming Savvy — Arithmetic Expressions
• Inheritance — Code Reuse and Refinement
• Programming Savvy — Symbol Table
• Class Hierarchy — Maintainability
• The ooc Preprocessor — Enforcing a Coding Standard
• Dynamic Type Checking — Defensive Programming
• Static Construction— Self-Organization
• Delegates — Callback Functions
• Class Methods— Plugging Memory Leaks
• Persistent Objects — Storing and Loading Data Structures
• Exceptions — Disciplined Error Recovery
• Forwarding Messages — A GUI Calculator
• ANSI-C Programming Hints
• The ooc Preprocessor — Hints on awk Programming
• Manual

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16. C and Data Structures by
Practice

This reading material is composed for the individuals who might
want to learn C and Data Structures without anyone else’s help and
become specialists on their own steam. The main goal of this book
is to show you the strategies and the hypothesis unambiguously and
justifiably, thereby bolstering up your confidence.

The methodology of this book is to educate you by training and
showing you real-time models. From the very first chapter, it has
presented a large portion of the ideas of C like arrays,
structures, loops, and pointers. The thought behind this was that
you ought to get acquainted with absolute minimum abilities to
program, with the goal that you can deal with different works.

Table of Contents

• Around the World of C
• Programming Basics
• Control Statements
• Functions and Storage Classes
• Arrays & Strings
• Pointers
• Structures & Unions
• Files
• Linear Data Structures
• Stacks
• Queues
• Non-Linear Data Structures: Trees
• Graphs
• Searching and Sorting

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17. Objective C
Phrasebook

This is a very concise and practical book to learn C
programming. It starts from the absolute basics continuing to the
advanced chapters. A brief discussion on the philosophy of
objective C is given as the introduction of this book, and then it
moves on to teaching you how to manage memory, manipulate strings,
throw and catch exceptions, etc. Managing memory with blocks,
binding variables to blocks, network access, covers the last part
of the book.

Table of Contents

• The Objective-C Philosophy
• An Objective-C Primer
• Memory Management
• Common Objective-C Patterns
• Numbers
• Manipulating Strings
• Working with Collections
• Dates and Times
• Working with Property Lists
• Interacting with the Environment
• Key-Value Coding
• Handling Errors
• Accessing Directories and Files
• Threads
• Blocks and Grand Central
• Notifications
• Network Access
• Debugging Objective-C
• The Objective-C Runtime

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18. Learning Objective-C
2.0

This book is proposed for software engineers who need to learn
Objective-C so as to compose programs for Mac OS X or iOS. Although
it is, in fact, conceivable to compose total OS X programs
utilizing different dialects, composing a program that follows the
Apple Human Interface Guidelines requires the utilization of the
Objective-C Cocoa structures.

When composing for iOS, there is no option but to write an
iPhone application’s external layer and UI in Objective-C. Software
engineers who need to compose Objective-C programs for different
platforms will likewise be benefitted from this c programming
book.

Table of Contents

I: Introduction to Objective-C 1

• C, The Foundation of Objective-C
• More About C Variables
• An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• Your First Objective-C Program

II: Language Basics  

• Messaging
• Classes and Objects
• The Class Object
• Frameworks
• Common Foundation Classes
• Control Structures in Objective-C
• Categories, Extensions, and Security
• Properties
• Protocols

III: Advanced Concepts 

• Reference Counting
• Garbage Collection
• Blocks

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19. C Programming –  A
Reference Manual

The goal of this book is to give you a complete and exact
conversation of the C language. Complete novices in this language
are recommended not to read this book as their first book as it is
more like a reference manual rather than a book teaching all the
basics of the language.

It expects that the perusers are already able to comprehend
essential programming ideas, and some will be experienced C
software engineers. It is the perfect book for you if you are
heading for an interview within a few days, or you are preparing
for an exam and want all the information in short inside one
particular book.

Table of Contents

PART 1 The C Language

• Introduction
• Lexical Elements
• The C Preprocessor
• Declarations
• Types
• Conversions and Representations
• Expressions
• Statements
• Functions

PART 2 The C Libraries

• Introduction to the Libraries
• Standard Language Additions
• Character Processing
• String Processing
• Memory Functions
• Input/Output Facilities
• General Utilities
• Mathematical Functions
• Time and Date Functions
• Control Functions
• Locale
• Extended Integer Types
• Floating-Point Environment
• Complex Arithmetic
• Wide and Multibyte Facilities

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20. The C Book Featuring The Ansi
C Standard

Those of you who are interested in the new features of C
language, this book is for you. Obviously, without any doubt, this
book can be used for learning the language itself, but it holds an
upper hand for those who already know how to program in this
language. C was the first programming language to be invented,
which is why it is a bit intricate and requires hard work and
effort to understand it completely.

This book will work extraordinarily for programmers wanting to
learn more about this language. It will be easier to learn C after
reading this book as it contains full-fledged C programs that act
as wonderful examples to grasp new information.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 –  An Introduction to C
• Chapter 2 – Variables and Arithmetic
• Chapter 3 – Control of Flow and Logical Expressions
• Chapter 4 – Functions
• Chapter 5 –  Arrays and Pointers
• Chapter 6 – Structured Data Types
• Chapter 7 – The Preprocessor
• Chapter 8 – Specialized Areas of C
• Chapter 9 – Libraries
• Chapter 10 – Complete Programs in C

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Finally, Insight

C language is undoubtedly popular for its amazing features and
abilities. No matter how easy and comfortable it is to work using
C, learning, and specializing in this language requires a lot of
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